 | 1875 - 466 Seiten
...: "Oft m this crowded house with just applause, You heard him teach fair virtues purest laws ; For his chaste muse employed her heaven-taught lyre, None but the noblest passions to inspire ; Not one memorial, one corrupted thought, One word, which, dying, he could wish to blot." POPULAR QUOTATIONS.... | |
 | 1877 - 362 Seiten
...Muse. — For his chaste MUSE employed her heaven-taught lyre None but the noblest passious to iuspire, Not one immoral, one corrupted thought. One line which, dying, he could wish to blot. Lord LYTTELTON, ProUigne to Thomton's CorManus. Music. — I am never merry when I hear sweet MUSIC.... | |
 | G.W. Carleton & Co - 1878 - 360 Seiten
...specious name, — War's glorious art, — and gives immortal fame. YOUNG, Love of Fame. Muse — For his chaste MUSE employed her heaven-taught lyre None...thought, One line which, dying, he could wish to blot. Lord LYTTELTON, Prologue to Thomson's Coriolanta. Music. — I am never merry when I hear sweet MUSIC.... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 Seiten
...moving art, That charm'd each ear and soften'd every heart. LORD LYTTELTON. For his chaste Muse employ'd her heaventaught lyre None but the noblest passions...thought, One line which, dying, he could wish to blot. LORD LYTTELTON : Prologue to Thomson's Coriolanus. What neede my Shakespeare for his honour'd bones,... | |
 | Samuel Smiles Jerdan - 1878 - 286 Seiten
...what is called "the fleshly school" of poetry. In his own writings he " uttered nothing base "— " Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, One line which, dying, he could wish to blot." LITERARY REMAINS. As already remarked, Mr. JERDAN'S prose writings took the ephemeral form of popular... | |
 | John McGovern - 1880 - 762 Seiten
...Oft in this crowded house, with just applause. You heard him teach fair Virtue's purest laws ; For his chaste muse employed her heaven-taught lyre None...thought, One line which, dying, he could wish to blot. IN 1736, William Shenstone wrote a poem entitled "The Schoolmistress," in which a stanza appeared that... | |
 | Dr. Doran (John), John Doran - 1880 - 456 Seiten
...;" and Quin's eyes glistened, as he went through the noble eulogy of a poet, whose " Muse employ'd her heaven-taught lyre, None but the noblest passions...thought, One line, which, dying, he could wish to blot." The last night Quin played as an engaged actor, was at Covent Garden, on the 15th of May, 1751 ; the... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1881 - 842 Seiten
...Oft in this crowded house, with just applause, Yoi heard him teach fair Virtue's purest laws ; For his chaste muse employed her heaven-taught lyre None but the noblest passions to inspire ; Not oiie immoral, one corrupted thought, One line which, dying, he could wish to blot. O may to-nigl.t... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt - 1882 - 914 Seiten
...Poets. To the poetic mind all things are poetical m. LONGFELLOW — Drift- Wood. Twice Told Tola. For e a sword, and it shall bite upon my necessity. / MernJ 'Wives of Windsor. Act П. Sc. 1. immortal, one corrupted thought, One line, which dying he could wish to blot n. BULWEB-LYTTON- Prologúelo... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward - 1882 - 926 Seiten
...1'oets. To the poetic mind all things are poetical m. LONOFEIXOW — Drift- Wood. Ttcicf Told Tola. For his chaste Muse employed her heaventaught lyre None but the noblest passions tn inspire, Not one immortal, one corrupted thought, One line, which dying he could wish to blot. n.... | |
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Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, One line, which dying he could wish to blot. 
